Device for assisting the threading of needles.



N0. 856,827. PATENTED JUNE 11, 1907.

I J. WELTY.

DEVICE FOR ASSISTING THE THREADING 0F NEEDLES.

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JACOB TVELTY, OF ASHLAND, OHIO.

DEVICE FOR ASSISTING THE THREADING OF NEEDLES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 1 1, 1 907.

Application filed April 16, 1906. Serial No. 311,960.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JACOB VVELTY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ashland, in the county of Ashland and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Device for Assisting the Threading of Needles, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in devices for assisting the threading of needles.

The object 'of the present invention is to improve the construction of devices for assisting the threading of needles, and to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient device of this character, designed to be sold as an attachment for and adapted to be readily applied to various makes of sewing machines, and capable of enabling a sewing machine to be conveniently threaded in poorly lighted rooms by throwing the light directly upon the eye of the needle.

Another object of the invention is to provide a device having means for adjustably securing it to the presser-bar of a sewing machine, and adapted when not in use, to be arranged out of the way and capable of being quickly brought into position for assisting the threading of the needle.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in the construction and novel combination of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawing, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended; it being understood that various changes, in the form, proportion, size and minor details of construction, within the scope of the claims, may be resorted to without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

In the drawing:Figure 1 is a front elevationof a portion of a sewing machine provided with an attachment constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is an enlarged perspective view of the device attached. Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional view of the same. Fig. 4 is a rear elevation of the pivotally mounted reflector.

Like numerals of reference designate cor responding parts in all the figures of the drawing.

1 designates a pivotally mounted, circular reflector, consisting of a metallic back plate 2, and a disk 3 of white porcelain, enamel, or other suitable material, which is adapted to present a white light reflecting front face, for throwing the light upon the eye of a sewing machine needle 4, to assist the threading of the same in a poorly lighted room. The edges of the back plate are spun over the periphery of the disk 3 to form a peripheral flange 5 for securing the disk and the back plate together, but the white, light-reflecting front face may be applied to the back plate in any other desired manner.

The reflector is provided with an eye 6 located beyond the periphery of the back plate and having a shank 7, which is secured to the exterior of the back plate, as clearly shown in Figs. 3 and 4 of the drawing. The eye is arranged between the terminals 8 of a clamping collar 9, which is split, the terminals being bent outward and arranged substantially parallel to receive and engage the eye. The out turned terminals of the collar are pierced by a clamping screw 10, which forms a pivot for the reflector, and permits the latter to swing in the arc of a circle, to arrange the said reflector in a horizontal position in rear of the eye of the needle, and also to permit the reflector to be swungupwardly to the position illustrated in dotted lines of Fig. 1 of the drawing, for arranging the reflector out of the way when not in use. The clamp, formed by the collar 9 and screw 10, rigidly holds the device on the presser-bar 11 of the sewing machine, and it enables the reflector to be adjusted vertically and arranged in proper relation with the eye of the needle. A single screw connects the terminals of the clamp for holding the latter in engagement with the presser bar, and this screw also pivots the reflector to the terminals of the clamp to permit the former to swing from its position in rear of the needle to a point above the clamp.

When the reflector is arranged in a horizontal position in rear of the eye of the needle, as shown in Fig. 1 of the drawing, it is adapted to throw light upon the eye of the needle, and it thereby greatly facilitates the threading of the same, and enables such operation to be conveniently effected, where the light is poor and where otherwise the threading of a needle would be a more or less difficult operation.

Having thus fully described my invention and what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. A device of the class described comprising a reflector, and a clamp for detachably mounting the same on the presser bar of a sewing machine in rear of the needle in position to throw the light to the front, said reflector being movably connected to the clamp and arranged to be thrown from its position in rear of the needle to a point above the clamp.

2. A device of the class described comprising a reflector, a clamp for detachably mounting the same on the presser bar of a sewing machine in rear of the eye of the needle in position to throw the light to the front, and a single screw connecting the terminals of the clamp for holding the latter in engagement with the presser bar, and also pivoting the reflector to the said terminals to permit the reflector to swing in an arc of a circle.

3. A device of the class described comprising a reflector, and a clamp for securing the reflector to the presser bar, said reflector being pivoted at one edge to the clamp and arranged to swing in a vertical plane to and from a position in rear of the needle.

In testimony, that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JACOB WELTY.

l/Vitnesses:

WILLIAM T. DEvoR, P. E. HALBERT. 

